Compound for chicken-cholera



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DICIE ORGAN, OF RIVER VIEW, KENTUCKY.

COMPOUND FOR CHlCKEN-CHOLERA.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent Np. 243,693, dated July 5,1881 Application filed April 16, 1881.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DIoIE CROAN, of River-View, in the county of Jefierson and State of Kentucky, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Medical Compounds; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, which will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a medical compound for the cure ofchicken-cholera; and it consists of the compounding of certainingredients, substantially as hereinafter more fully set forth.

The ingredients are as follows: red-oak bark, two pounds; poke-root, twopounds; wahooroot, one pound; Euphorbia maculata, or garden-spurge, onepound black mustard-seed, one table-spoonful water, pure, three gallons.Place these in a boiler and boil down to one gallon in quantity.

Directions: Place the compound, in suitable quantities, in a trough orbasin for the fowls those not too far overcome--to drink, which theywill do freely. The better form to give it in is by placing it inbuttermilk or mixing it with meal or bran. If they are too far overcometo be able to eat or drink, administer about one gill of the compoundthree times a 0 day, mixing it with meal and forcing it with the fingerdown the throat, and drenching (Specimens) with the liquid. Generallyfowls thus treated will be able to eat voluntarily the second day.

This compound is a powerful stimulant and astringent, checks the bowels,arouses the action of the vital forces, equalizes the circulation of theblood, and imparts with rapidity new life to the diseased fowls.

If the com pound be setout occasionally-say once a month-the trouble offorced administrations will be avoided.

The aforesaid ingredients are readily obtained and in abundantquantities in almost every rural locality or upon every plantation, andare almost all well known for their medical qualities.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent- The described medical compound, com pounded in about theproportions and manner stated, consisting of red-oak bark, poke-root,wahooroot, Euphorbia maculata, or garden-spurge, and black mustard-seed,substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

- DIOIE ORGAN. Witnesses:

D. T. HAYDEN, A. P. STEELE.

